Jodi Picoult can always be relied upon to provide another good read. And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family.Īll songs performed by Ellen Wilber. It’s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people - even those she loves and trusts most - don’t want that to happen. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.įor better or for worse, music is the language of memory. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. For without insight into the motives and convictions of characters on both sides of an issue, the novel will fall flat.Every life has a soundtrack. In a country as polarized as this one, and for a Democrat as active as Picoult (who gives a lot of money to various causes and institutions), it's not always easy to make, say, the anti-abortion activist or the anti-gay marriage minister or the school board bureaucrat banning books into sympathetic characters.
The closer she gets to real life, real people, real problems, the better the novel. Picoult works hard to keep her characters from being straw men and women.
She complicates already complicated dilemmas in her plots. Picoult is known for her ability to shed light on the issues affecting domestic life in America: divorce, overprotective parenting, childhood depression, families struggling with medical crises - what The New York Times once called "the literature of children in peril." In this novel she picks the issue of same-sex families and the emotional and legal issues surrounding fertility procedures, and explores it from several perspectives: legal, medical, religious, political.
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